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Bay-Waveland Yacht Club Wins It’s 18th Lipton Cup Regatta
BWYC Jib Sheet
October 2007	'	sPecial	Report	by	Woody	Santa	Cruz
It's a great time for bragging about Bay-Waveland Yacht Club and for a brief look at a significant BWYC sailing achievement.
Congratulations are definitely in order for all of Bay-Waveland Yacht Club, especially the 2007 BWYC Upton Cup Sailing Team, BWYC sailing program supporters and for all the participants.
Commodore Bernard Wolfe and BWYC Lipton Team Captain Rene Dupaquier led a very competent and powerful Bay Waveland Yacht Club sailing team to Buccaneer Yacht Club in Alabama on Mobile Bay over this past Labor Day Weekend where they romped to victory in defending the highly prestigious Sir Thomas J. Lipton Cup Championship in a strong fleet of finely tuned Flying Scot sail boats from 21 Gulf Yachting Association yacht clubs. The GYA includes member yacht clubs from the State of Texas to St. Petersburg, Florida.
BWYC won three of the four races, and finished second in the other. With almost a perfect regatta score, BWYC amassed 5 points with finishes of 1-1-2-1, 14 points better than runner-up Pass Christian Yacht Club 3-6-7-3 for 19 and host Buccaneer with 4-3-6-6 for 19 points.
BWYC's Zak Fanberg with his crew of Kippy Chamberlain and Katherine Santa Cruz won the first race Sunday morning after it was abandoned on Saturday about midway through the race by the Upton Cup Race Committee because of drastically changing and unstable wind conditions. Marc Eagan, with a crew of Andrew Eagan won the second race. Gilly Chamberlain finished second in the third race with crew Randy Santa Cruz and Beau Dupaquier. Then on Monday, Marcus Eagan (leading at every mark of the race course) won the fourth race by a very impressive margin with a crew of Rene and Beau Dupaquier.
Bay-Waveland has now won three consecutive Lipton Cup Championship regattas bringing the total number of BWYC wins to 18 over the 87 years of sailing competition for the coveted Lipton Cup. Only Southern Yacht Club has 18 overall wins with 3 ties for first place in this historic sailing competition event. BWYC now has earned the privilege and will be the host for the 88th championship regatta on Labor Day Weekend in 2008 at the new club house on the Bay which is well underway at this time thanks to the good work of the BWYC Building Committee headed up by former BWYC Commodore Ted Dawson.
The other 17 teams at this year's Lipton Cup Championship event were Pontchartrain Yacht Club at (21 points), Southern Yacht Club of New Orleans (27), New Orleans Yacht Club (28), Fairhope Yacht Club (33), Gulfport Yacht Club at (34), Fort Walton Yacht Club (36) and Pelican Yacht Club (44), Pensacola Yacht Club (45), Lake Charles Yacht Club (47), St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club (47), Birmingham Yacht Club (49), Biloxi Yacht Club (51), Mobile Yacht Club (62), Pensacola 3each Yacht Club (65), Jackson Yacht Club (66), Navy Yacht Club (72), Singing River Yacht Club (76) and Long Beach Yacht Club (81).
The Winning 2007 BWYC Sir Thomas J. Lipton Cup Championship Sailing Team pictured from the left are: Race 1 Crew Kippy Chamberlain; Race 3 Crew Randy Santa Cruz; Race 1 Crew Katherine Ann Santa Cruz; Race 2 Skipper Marc Eagan; Race 4 Skipper Marcus Eagan; Race 2 Crew Andrew Eagan; Race 3 and Race 4 Crew Beau Dupaquier; BWYC Team Captain and Race 4 Crew Rene Dupaquier; Race 3 Skipper Gilly Chamberlain; and Race 1 Skipper Zak Fanberg. Not included in this picture is Commodore Bernie Wolfe.